[216] See Hefele, Conciliengeschichte, iii., p. 56; St. Gregory, ii., p. 1294; Mansi, x., p. 486.
[217] S. Siricius, Ep.
[219] Philippians iv. 3.
[220] See St. Clement's epistle, sec. 59. "Receive our counsel and you shall not repent of it. For, as God liveth, and as the Lord Jesus Christ liveth, and the Holy Spirit, and the faith and the hope of the elect, he who performs in humility, with assiduous goodness, and without swerving, the commands and injunctions of God, he shall be enrolled and esteemed in the number of those saved through Jesus Christ, through whom be glory to Him for ever and ever. Amen. But if any disobey what has been ordered by Him through us, let them know that they will involve themselves in a fall, and no slight danger, but we shall be innocent of this sin."
[221] Hurter's Geschichte Papst Innocenz des Dritten, i. 85-7.
INDEX.
Acacius, bishop of Constantinople, 471-489, [65];
his conduct to the year 482, [66];
induces Zeno to publish a formulary of doctrine, [70];
deposed by Pope Felix, [75];
rejects the Pope's sentence, [83];
attempts superiority over the eastern patriarchates, [84-86];
position taken up by him against the Pope, [84-91];
dies after five years of excommunication in 489, defying the Pope, [83];
his name erased from the diptychs, [168];
summary of his conduct and aims, [174-6]
Agapetus, Pope, his accession, [202];
confirms all his old rights to the Primate of Carthage, [203];
confirms Justinian's profession of faith, at the emperor's request, [204];
goes to Constantinople, deposes Anthimus and consecrates Mennas patriarch, [205]
Agnostics, generated by schismatics, [5]
Alexandria and Antioch, fearful state of their patriarchates, [184];
the vast difference between their patriarchs and the Primacy, [185]
Anastasius II., Pope, 496-8, [120];
his letter to the emperor asserts that as the imperial secular
dignity is pre-eminent in the whole world, so the Principate
of St. Peter's See in the whole Church, [120];
both are divine delegations, [121];
writes to Clovis upon his conversion, [122];
anticipates the great results to follow from it, [123]
Anastasius, eastern emperor in 491, made emperor when a
Silentiarius in the court, 518, [83];
summary of his reign in the "libellus synodicus," [100-1];
four Popes—Gelasius, Anastasius, Symmachus, and Hormisdas—have
to deal with him, [102];
tries to prevent the election of Pope Symmachus, [129];
he is obliged to allow the Roman See not to be judged, [143];
he deposes Euphemius, and puts Macedonius in his stead at
Constantinople, [143];
exalts Timotheus to the see of Constantinople, [148];
fills the eastern patriarchal sees with heretics, [149];
being pressed by Vitalian, betakes himself to Pope Hormisdas, [150];
receives his conditions, except those concerning Acacius, [159];
his treachery and cruelty, [160];
his sudden death, [162]
Anatolius, bishop of Constantinople, crowns the emperor Leo I.,
dies in 458, [64];
his ambition seen and checked by St. Leo, [60];
is to Leo what John the Faster is to Gregory, [307]
Anicius Olybrius, Roman emperor, [20]
Anthemius, Roman emperor, [18]
Arianism, propagated among the Goths by the emperor Valens, [49];
communicated by them to the Teuton tribes, [29];
prevalent throughout the West, [50];
fails in the Vandal, Visigothic, Burgundian, and Ostrogothic
kingdoms, [327-9]
Aspar, Arian Goth, makes Leo I. emperor, and is slain by him, [62]
Ataulph, marries Galla Placidia, his judgment upon the Goths and
Romans, [43]
Avitus, St., bishop of Vienne, in Gaul, his character of
Acacius, [93];
his letter to Clovis on his conversion, [124];
urges his duty to propagate the faith in the peoples around him, [126];
writes to the Roman senate that the cause of the Bishop of Rome is
not one bishop but that of the Episcopate itself, [140]
Avitus, Roman emperor, [13]
Augustine, St., the great victory of the Church which he did
not foresee, [57]
Baronius, quoted, [76], [79], [202], [207]
Basiliscus, usurper, first of the theologising emperors, [46]
Belisarius, reconquers Northern Africa, [199];
begins the Gothic war, and enters Rome, [205];
deposes Pope Silverius, [207];
defends Rome against Vitiges, [210];
captures Rome the third time, [207]
Benedict, St., his monastery at Monte Cassino destroyed by the
Lombards, [290];
his Order has its chief seat for 140 years at St. John Lateran, [290];
rebukes and subdues Totila, [215]
Byzantium, the over-lordship of its emperor acknowledged, [18], [23];
the succession to its throne, [61];
its constitution under Justinian contrasted with the medieval
constitution of England, [250]
Cassiodorus, his letter as Prætorian prefect to Pope John II., [195]
Church, Catholic, its two great victories, [5], [25];
attested and described by Gibbon, [325]
Civiltà Cattolica, quoted, [103], [104], [128]
Constantinople, its seven bishops who follow Anatolius, [180];
submission of its bishop, clergy, emperor, and nobles to Pope
Hormisdas, [187];
service of its cathedral under Justinian, [244];
growth of its bishop from St. Leo to St. Gregory, [342];
all the work of the imperial power, [344];
perpetual encroachment of its bishops, [348], [359]
Cyprian, St., quoted, "De Unitate Ecclesiæ," [3]
Dante, quoted, [184];
on Justinian, [197]
Diptychs, their meaning and force, [83]
Ennodius, St., bishop of Pavia, asserts that God has reserved to
Himself all judgment upon the successors of St. Peter, [142];
his character of Acacius, [93]
Euphemius, in 490 succeeds Fravita at Constantinople, [96];
opposes the emperor Anastasius, but signs his Henotikon, [97];
begs for reconciliation with Pope Felix, but will not give up
Acacius, [97];
recognises the authority of Pope Gelasius, [103-5];
deposed by the emperor through the Resident Council in 496, [114]
Eutychius, patriarch of Constantinople, [239];
presides over the Fifth Council, [240];
consecrates Santa Sophia in 563, [244];
is deposed by Justinian in 565, [245]
Felix III., Pope, 483-492, [71];
his letter to the emperor Zeno, stating his succession from
St. Peter, [72];
his letter to Acacius, [73];
holds a council in 484 and deposes Acacius, [75];
his sentence, recounting the misdeeds of Acacius, [76-8];
the synodal sentence signed by the Pope alone, which is justified by
the Roman synod, [79];
denounces Acacius to the emperor Zeno, [80];
his utter helplessness as to secular support when he thus
writes, [82], [88];
writes afresh to the emperor Zeno that the Apostle Peter speaks in
him as his Vicar, [94];
delays to grant communion to Fravita, successor of Acacius, [94];
dies after nine years of pontificate, [97].
Filicaja, quoted, [91]
Franks, made great by the Catholic faith, [44], [348];
so found a kingdom, while Ostrogoths and Visigoths lose it, [348]
Fravita, succeeds Acacius at Constantinople, and begs for the
Pope's recognition, [93];
dies after three months, [96]
Gelasius, Pope, 492, [98];
condition of the Empire and Church at his accession, [98-9];
writes to Euphemius, who will cede everything except the person of
Acacius, [103-5];
the bishops of Eastern Illyricum profess their obedience to the
Apostolic See, [105-6];
to whom the Pope declares that the see of Constantinople has no
precedence over other bishops, [107];
that the Holy See, in virtue of its Principate, confirms every
council, [109];
his great letter to the emperor Anastasius defines the domain of
the Two Powers, [110];
the Primacy instituted by Christ, acknowledged by the Church, [111];
in the Roman synod of 496, declares the divine Primacy of the Roman
See, the second rank of Alexandria, and the third of Antioch, as
sees of Peter, [113];
the three Councils of Nicæa, Ephesus in 431, and Chalcedon, to be
general, [116];
omits the Council of Constantinople in 381, [116];
death of Gelasius, and character of the time of his sitting, [118];
calls Odoacer "barbarian and heretic," [68]
Gennadius bishop of Constantinople, 458-71, [64]
Gibbon, acknowledges the two great victories of the Church, [325];
and the work of the Church in the Spanish monarchy, [322];
and the influence of bishops in establishing the French
monarchy, [329]
Glycerius, Roman emperor, [21]
Gregorovius, "Geschichte der Stadt Rom.," quoted, [9], [11], [13], [14],
[23], [42], [208], [222], [245], [247], [272-3], [275]
Gregory, St., the Great, his ancestry, [276];
state of Rome described by his predecessor Pope Pelagius, [277];
elected Pope, 590—tries for six months to escape, [278];
describes the work he was undertaking, [279];
and the misery of Rome in the words of Ezechiel, [281];
the Rome of St. Leo and the Rome of St. Gregory, [284];
his works done out of this Rome, [285-7];
the Lombard descent on Italy, [288];
alludes to a strange occurrence in St. Agatha dei Goti, [21];
refers to his great-grandfather, Pope Felix III., [81];
describes St. Benedict rebuking Totila, [215];
his right of reporting injustice to the emperor, [260];
his Primacy untouched by Rome's calamities, [292];
describes his Primacy to the empress Constantina, [295];
identifies to her his authority with that of St. Peter, [296];
also to the emperor Mauritius, [299];
and to the Lombard queen Theodelinda, [312];
and to the king of the Franks, [312];
and to Rechared, Gothic king of Spain, [319];
and in the appointment of the English hierarchy, [315];
his inference from the original patriarchal sees being all sees
of Peter, [301];
exposes the contrast between the assumed title of the patriarch
of Constantinople and his own Principate, [302-7];
his title, "Servant of the servants of God," expresses his
administration, [308];
as fourth Doctor of the western Church, [334];
as chief artificer in the Church's second victory, [335];
England indebted to him, both for hierarchy and civil constitution, [336];
his action as bishop, metropolitan, patriarch, and Pope, [337];
councils held by him at Rome, [338];
defends the liberties of monasteries against bishops, [339];
and as metropolitan succours distressed bishoprics, [340];
called the father of the monks, [341];
compared with St. Leo in the exercise of the Primacy, [342];
continues the struggle of the Popes from St. Sylvester to maintain
the Nicene constitution, [350]
Gregory of Tours, St., notes the prospering of the Catholic,
and the decline of the Arian kingdoms, [123];
attests St. Gregory's flight from the papacy, [279]
Guizot, his witness to the action of the hierarchy, [54]
Hefele, "Conciliengeschichte," quoted, [93], [100], [114], [116], [128],
[136], [137], [139], [142], [202], [232]
Hergenröther, Card., quoted, "Kirchengeschichte," [26], [114], [185],
[232], [244];
"Photius, sein Leben," [46], [47], [68], [75], [78], [83], [92], [93], [104], [128],
[129], [143], [159], [165], [170], [187], [196], [203], [205], [207], [228], [230], [232],
[245], [270], [271]
Hilarus, Pope, [16]
Hormisdas, deacon, elected Pope in 514, [149];
sends a legation to the emperor Anastasius, who had applied to his
fatherly affection, [150];
instruction given to his legates, [151-8];
orders them not to be introduced by the bishop of Constantinople, [157];
conditions of reunion proposed by him to the emperor, [158];
is deceived by the emperor, and denounces the treachery of Greek
diplomacy, [160];
is appealed to by the Syrian Archimandrites, [161];
resolves how to terminate the Acacian schism, [164];
his formulary of union accepted by the East, [167];
dies in 523, [193]
Hurter's "Geschichte Papst Innocenz des Dritten," the papal idea
carried out through generations, [353-5]
Ignatius, St., of Antioch, quoted, [12]
Jerome, St., the result which he did not foresee, [57]
John, patriarch of Constantinople, accepts the formulary of Pope
Hormisdas, [166]
John I., Pope, martyred by Theodorick, [193]
John II., Pope, praises Justinian for acknowledging the Primacy,
and confirms his confession of faith, [191]
John Talaia, elected patriarch of Alexandria, [68];
offends Acacius, [69];
flies for refuge to Pope Simplicius, [71];
is supported by Pope Felix, [75];
made bishop of Nola by Pope Felix, [92]
John The Faster, patriarch of Constantinople, assumes a
scandalous title, [299];
holds to Gregory the position of Anatolius to Leo, [307]
Justin I., made emperor, [162];
writes to Pope Hormisdas, [163];
announces to him the condemnation of Acacius, [169];
his reign of nine years, [198]
Justinian, his origin, [162];
entreats Pope Hormisdas to restore unity, [164];
acknowledges to Pope John II. his Primacy, [189];
enacts the Pandects, [192];
acknowledged the Pope's Primacy all his life, [195];
his character as legislator, [197];
recovers North Africa, [199];
begins the Gothic war, [206];
domineers over the eastern Church, [227-32];
acknowledges the dignity of Pope Vigilius, [232];
persecutes him, [232-40];
issues dogmatic decrees, [236], [242];
issues Pragmatic Sanction for Italy, [243];
deposes his patriarch Eutychius, [244];
is conception of Church and State, [248-56];
makes bishops and governors exercise mutual supervision, [257];
completeness and cordiality of his alliance with the Church, [261];
his spirit the opposite to that of modern governments, [262];
how far he maintains, how far goes beyond, the imperial idea, [264-9];
result spiritual and temporal of his reign, [270]
Kurth, quoted "Les Origines de la Civilisation modern," [41];
on the policy of Justinian, [255];
the Church's power over the new nations, [333]
Leander, St., archbishop of Seville, becomes an intimate friend of
St. Gregory during his nunciature at Constantinople, [277];
receives the pallium from St Gregory, [317], [321]
Leo I., St., his universal Pastorship acknowledged by the Church
in General Council, [1-3];
and the succession of the Popes during 400 years, from St. Peter, [3];
rescues Rome from Attila, and from Genseric, [7-8];
his character, acts, and times, [15];
stands between the two great victories of the Church, and represents
both, [25-6];
the result which St. Leo did not foresee, [57];
his prescience of usurpation from the Byzantine bishop, [60];
his prescience of what the bishops of Constantinople aimed at, [307];
draws out the office and functions of the nuncio, [338]
Leo I., emperor, 467, [62];
dies in 474, [63]
Leo II., an infant, succeeds for a few months, [63]
Liberatus, "Breviarium," quoted, [208], [209]
Libius Severus, Roman emperor, [16]
Lombards, their descent on Italy and uncivilised savagery, [287-91];
for ever strive to possess Rome, but never succeed, [347]
Macedonius, bishop of Constantinople, feels his unlawful
appointment, [143];
persecuted during fifteen years, and finally deposed by the emperor
Anastasius, [144-8];
refuses to give up the Council of Chalcedon, but will not surrender
the memory of Acacius, and never enjoys communion with the Pope,
[144-8]
Majorian, Roman emperor, [14]
Martyrdom, Papal, of 300 years, [10], [54]
Mausoleum of Hadrian, stripped of its statues, [211];
an apparition of St. Michael changes its name, [278]
Mennas, patriarch of Constantinople, [228-239]
Nepos, Roman emperor, [21]
Odoacer, extinguishes the western emperor, [22];
named Patricius of the Romans by the emperor Zeno, [35];
slain by Theodorick, [38];
his exaltation foretold by St. Severinus, [22]
Olybrius, Roman emperor, [20]
Orosius, an important anecdote preserved by him, [43]
Pallium, sent by the Pope to the chief bishop in each province, [337];
the duties and powers which it carried with it, [337]
Papal election, the freedom of, assailed by Odoacer, [194], [292];
by Theodorick and Justinian, [210], [292]
Pelagius II., Pope, 578-590, describes the state of Rome, [277]
Petra Apostolica, in the sixty Popes preceding Gregory, [352];
in the Popes from St. Gregory to Innocent III., [353];
in the Popes from Innocent III. to Leo XIII., [355];
sustained by opposing forces, [359]
Philips, "Kirchenrecht," his judgment of Theodorick, [41];
on Byzantine succession, [61]
Primacy, the Roman, its denial suicidal in all who believe one holy
Catholic Church, [3-4];
the creator of Christendom, [5], [6], [10], [57-8];
tested by the division of the empire, [51];
still more by the extinction of the western emperor, [53];
witness to it by Guizot, [55];
saves, in the seven successors of St. Leo, the eastern Church from
becoming Eutychean, [179-86];
developed by the sufferings of sixty years, [188];
acknowledged by the Council of Africa after the expulsion of the
Vandals, [201];
defined by the Vatican Council, as held by St. Gregory I., [307];
saves the western bishops from absorption in their several countries, [330];
preserver of civil liberties, [333];
resister of Byzantine despotism, [333];
its development from St. Leo I. to St. Gregory I., [342];
confirmed and illustrated by civil disasters, [346];
as Rome, the secular city, diminishes, the Primacy advances, [357]
Rechared, king of the Spanish Visigoths, converted, [318];
his letter to St. Gregory informing him of his conversion, [321]
Reumont, "Geschichte der Stadt Rom.," quoted, over-lordship of
Byzantium, [19];
Odoacer, Patricius at Rome, [35];
picture of Theodorick, [36];
of his government, [38];
sparing of St. Peter's and St. Paul's, [213];
Totila's deeds, [215];
Narses made Patricius of Rome, [245];
the Pragmatic Sanction, [246]
Riffel, "Kirche und Staat," quoted, [190], [251], [253], [254], [255], [256], [267]
Röhrbacher, the German edition of the history, quoted, [128], [142], [162],
[192], [198], [199], [200], [202], [205], [245], [303], [305]
Rome, its fall as a city coeval with the universal recognition
of the Papal Primacy, [6-10];
this fall and this recognition traced from Constantine to St.
Gregory, [356-8];
imperial, its death agony of twenty-one years, [23];
its sufferings in the Gothic war, [210-23];
the new city, from Narses, lives only by the Primacy, [294];
its extreme misery in the days of St. Gregory, [281], [284]
Romulus Augustulus, Roman emperor, [21]
Saxons, rudest of Teuton tribes, humanised by St. Gregory, [348]
Sidonius Apollinaris, picture of the Roman senate, [17];
description of Rome in 467, [18];
makes Rome acknowledge the over-lordship of the East, [19];
describes the Roman baths, [19]
Silverius, St., Pope, elected in 536, [205];
deposed by Belisarius, at the instigation of Theodora, [208];
martyred in the island of Palmaria, [209]
Simplicius, Pope, his outlook from Rome, [45];
his letter to the emperor Zeno, [66]
Symmachus, elected Pope in 498, [128];
his letter to the eastern emperor, [129];
compares the imperial and the papal power, [131];
they are the two heads of human society, [133];
Catholic princes acknowledge Popes on their accession, [134];
inferences to be deduced from this letter, [136];
the Synodus Palmaris refuses to judge the Pope, [136];
addressed by eastern bishops in their misery as a father by his
children, [149];
dies in 514, [149]
Theodora, empress, her promises to Vigilius, [208];
her violent deposition of Pope Silverius, [209]
Theodorick, the Ostrogoth, how nurtured, [36];
marches on Italy, [37];
which he conquers, and slays Odoacer, [38];
character of his reign, [39];
slays Pope John I., and his own ministers, Boethius and Symmachus,
[41], [329];
judgment of him by St. Gregory, [41];
contrast with Clovis, [42];
his kingdom came to nothing, [43];
asks the title of king from the emperor Anastasius, [128];
determines the election of Pope Symmachus against Laurentius, [129];
induced to send a bishop as visitor of the Roman Church, [137];
said by the emperor to have the charge of governing the Romans
committed to him, [159];
his ability and family connections, [177];
final failure of his state, his family, and people, [328-9];
his attempt to maintain Arianism in the West foiled, [347]
Thierry, "Derniers temps de l'Empire d'Occident," [20]
Tillemont, quoted, [64]
Totila, elected Gothic king, [214];
is warned by St. Benedict, [215];
takes Rome, [216];
takes Rome, its fourth capture, [218];
killed at Taginas, [219]
Valens, emperor, poisons the western empire with Arianism, [50], [92]
Valentinian III., his edict in 447 terms the Pope, Leo I.,
principem episcopalis coronæ, [56];
murdered by Maximus, [13]
Vere, A. de, quoted, "Legends and Records," [1], [12];
"Chains of St. Peter," [272]
Vigilius, made Pope by Belisarius, [209];
summoned to Constantinople by Justinian, [226];
his persecution there, [232-243];
his dignity as Pope left unimpaired, [293]
Vitiges, besieges Rome, and ruins the aqueducts and Campagna, [210-13];
carried a captive to Constantinople, [214]
Wandering of the nations, [26-35]
Zeno, eastern emperor, [63];
second of the theologising emperors, [47];
his conduct and character, [63];
matched with the emperor Valens, [92];
his death, [91], [99]